The Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York are blanketed with a forest that has been left largely untouched over the centuries. That forest is dense with sugar maple trees—the best kind from which to extract the sap that gets made into maple ...

During each of the past two winters, I headed up to White Pine Camp in the Adirondacks, near Saranac Lake, in late February or early March. Each time, the lack of snow on the ground was impossible to ignore. It got me looking into how climate change ...

Throughout my twenties, I went camping every so often, always the tag-along of someone who had all the gear. It was usually for just a night, somewhere within a couple hours of New York City by car. When I met my now-boyfriend of six years, the ...